The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

1. (1) Act--Texas Education Code, Chapter 134, Jobs and Education for Texans Grant Program.
2. (2) Advisory board--The advisory board of education and workforce stakeholders created pursuant to the Act.

3. (3) Career and technical education--Organized educational activities that offer a sequence of courses that:

   1. (A) provides individuals with coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in high-demand occupations or emerging industries;
   2. (B) includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of an industry, including entrepreneurship, of an individual; or
   3. (C) provides a license, a certificate, or a postsecondary degree.
4. (4) Certificate or degree completion--Any grouping of workforce or technical courses in sequential order that, when satisfactorily completed by a student, will entitle the student to a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board--approved certificate or associate degree from a public technical institute, public junior college, or public state college.
5. (5) Developmental education--Structured courses, tutorials, laboratories, or other proven instructional efforts that successfully prepare students for college level (and therefore work-ready) courses as measured by passing the state-required college entrance exam (or meeting the Texas Success Initiative requirements).
6. (6) Emerging industry--A growing, evolving, or developing industry based on new technological products or concepts.
7. (7) High-demand occupation--A job, profession, skill, or trade for which employers within the state of Texas generally, or within particular regions or cities of the state, have or will have a substantial need. In determining whether there is or will be a substantial need for a particular job, profession, trade, or skill, the Agency may consider occupations identified by the 28 Local Workforce Development Boards (Board-Area Target Occupations Lists) and/or the Agency's labor market projections.
8. (8) JET--The Jobs and Education for Texans Grant Program.
9. (9) Open-enrollment charter school--A Texas public school operated by a charter holder under an open-enrollment charter granted pursuant to Texas Education Code §12.101.
10. (10) Public junior college--Any junior college certified by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in accordance with Texas Education Code §61.003.
11. (11) Public state college--Lamar State College--Orange, Lamar State College--Port Arthur, or Lamar Institute of Technology, in accordance with Texas Education Code §61.003.
12. (12) Public technical institute--The Lamar Institute of Technology or the Texas State Technical College System, in accordance with Texas Education Code §61.003.
13. (13) School district--An independent school district or the Windham School District.

Source Note:The provisions of this §804.1 adopted to be effective September 1, 2009, 34 TexReg 5959; amended to be effective July 1, 2014, 39 TexReg 4964; transferred effective June 16, 2015, as published in the Texas Register August 7, 2015, 40 TexReg 5066; amended to be effective December 12, 2016, 41 TexReg 9741; amended to be effective May 2, 2022, 47 TexReg 2566; amended to be effective September 23, 2024, 49 TexReg 7636.